http://www.icahd.org News and information about the Israel/Palestine conflict en-us Wednesday the 23rd of July, 2008 00:00:00 GMT 20 http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=609 <br> <br> <br>Every morning around 4 am, the Muslim call to prayer resounds throughout the Anata valley from a mosque nearby Beit Arabeia. Though I tend to awaken upon hearing this call, what really gets me out of bed is Salim’s 6 am call, “Coffee, coffee . . . Saturday the 19th of July, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=608 <br> <br> <br>This morning our team of international workers- Spanish, British, American, Italian, Dutch and Finnish-walked through the outskirts of Anata to our worksite. We are building a temporary home for a lovely family with seven children whose hom . . . Friday the 18th of July, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=607 <br>SPANISH GOVERNMENT TO FUND HOME REBUILDING <br> <br> <br>Today, July 15, ICAHD opened its 2008 summer rebuilding camp in Anata. The past five annual work camps have been funded by private donors, both organizations and individuals. This year, too, w . . . Friday the 18th of July, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=606 <br>There has been a worrying change in the Jerusalem municipality's policy toward house demolitions. It has begun issuing notices to residents of homes scheduled to be demolished telling them that they have 10 days to remove all of their belongings on th . . . Thursday the 17th of July, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=604 <br>From July 15th to July 28th, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) will host its sixth annual summer work camp in Anata. This year, we will rebuild the home of the Elayyan family, which was demolished by the Israeli authorities oin . . . Monday the 7th of July, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=603 <br>Bethlehem / Najib Farrag - After last week’s announcement to destroy a dozen Bethlehem and Hebron homes, water tanks and places of business, Israeli forces just dolled out 10 more demolition orders in Bethlehem. <br> <br>Residents of Al Khader and Ki . . . Tuesday the 3rd of June, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=601 <br>In the early 1990s, a settler organization by the name of Elad (a Hebrew acronym for: To the City of David) began to plot its takeover of Silwan, a densely populated Palestinian neighborhood located a stone’s throw away from the Temple Mount and the A . . . Tuesday the 3rd of June, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=600 <br>If you are in the UK, you are invited to hear Prof. Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), at venues around the country for the launch of his new book, “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redee . . . Saturday the 24th of May, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=478 <br>Israeli Independence Day 2008, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the rise of the Jewish State, should be cause for sober reflection and reevaluation as well as celebration. Indeed, we Israeli Jews have much to celebrate. But something, it appears, i . . . Monday the 19th of May, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=597 <br>Jeff Halper, ICAHD's Director-Coordinator, continues his six-month advocacy campaign (with short home visits). He was just in the US where, among other things, he convened a meeting of 22 "strategic Jews" to discuss how to move the Jewish community to . . . Monday the 12th of May, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=468 <br>It was another of those routine tragedies that are never publicized. At eight in the morning we at ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) received a call that the Border Police, Israeli police and Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers wer . . . Friday the 11th of April, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=589 <br>Yunis Sbeih, his wife and eight children had lived in their home for four years in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Anata. This morning while Mr. Sbeih was consulting with his lawyer about a home demolition order he received four days ago, his wife . . . Monday the 14th of April, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=480 <br>My last article about the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) was a mea culpa, in which I spent the bulk of the piece atoning for my former condemnation of the group and their work. In so doing, I turned the focus onto myself and my ow . . . Wednesday the 28th of May, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=590 <br>On 12th April over 40 Israeli activists from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv arrived in a West Bank village for a day of solidarity and work with Palestinians. Two homes destroyed by the Israeli government were in process of being rebuilt by ICAHD’s Constructi . . . Monday the 14th of April, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=588 <br>During the Summer 2007, International volunteers, together with Israelis and Palestinians, rebuilt the home of the Hamdan Family in East Jerusalem which had been demolished for lack of a permit. On April 2nd, 2008 the home was again demolished in a wa . . . Friday the 11th of April, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=579 <br>On November 27, 2007, amidst great fanfare (accompanied by a "lowering of expectations"), the United States and Israel - with the Palestinians, the Europeans, the Russians and the UN pulled in by the ears - announced the beginning a Great New Peace Pr . . . Wednesday the 12th of March, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=464 <br>In the Spider's Web is a total of 47-minute long documentary produced in 2004 by Al-Haq and directed by Hannah Musleh. The film is part of Al-Haq's campaign to stop collective punishment practiced by Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civili . . . Thursday the 13th of March, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=555 <br>Following numerous requests on behalf of Zochrot organization, the Jewish National Found (KKL-JNF) obligated itself to change the wording on all signs detailing history of an area, in a way that will mention the names of destroyed Palestinian villages . . . Monday the 4th of February, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=458 <br>ICAHD’s Constructing Peace Campaign recently rebuilt a bridge for Bedouin villagers of Ramadin in the South Hebron Hills. The bridge had been destroyed by the IDF as part of the Israeli government’s policy of ‘encouraging’ the Bedouin to evacuate the . . . Sunday the 17th of February, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=553 <br>The Israeli-Arab town of Umm al-Fahm shut off its electricity for one hour on Saturday night in an intentional blackout, and a torch-lit march was held in solidarity with the residents of the Gaza Strip to protest an Israeli blockade of goods entering . . . Sunday the 27th of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=552 <br>Eighteen year old Mohammed Awwad was killed on Friday in the West Bank’s Beit Ommar by Israeli forces. At least 10 others were wounded throughout the day. Among them was Palestine Solidarity Project (a project committed to nonviolent direct action aga . . . Sunday the 27th of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=451 <br>Anyone familiar with Israeli politics, was not surprised that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not acknowledge Israel's occupation in his speech at Annapolis. What was surprising was, that, short of mentioning the "R" word- refugees,Olmert ackno . . . Monday the 21st of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=546 <br>Gaza is under siege! Hundreds of commodities needed for maintaining daily life are not allowed into the Strip, by order of the Government of Israel. Even the entry of water filters - vital for purifying the water drawn from Gazan wells, which are heav . . . Monday the 21st of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=450 <br>After returning from the Annapolis Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz (November 28, 2007) that "the State of Israel cannot endure unless a Palestinian state comes into being." Olmert had made a like pronouncement in December 2 . . . Friday the 18th of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=547 <br>As most of you already know, this is a time of tremendous humanitarian and medical crisis for the 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. A group of Israeli organizations is planning a major action for Saturday, January 26, to bring a r . . . Monday the 21st of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=448 <br>U.S. President George Bush landed in Israel yesterday on his first Presidential trip to the country. He participated in a press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in what both men termed a “historic” and “monumental” occa . . . Thursday the 10th of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=443 <br>While Ehud Olmert and Abu Mazen were wheeling and dealing at Annapolis, several Israeli government ministries and security agencies were deploying their combined resources in a massive operation aimed at Israel’s southern Negev Desert. While the eyes . . . Saturday the 5th of January, 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=434 <br>Annually since 2003, ICAHD has made it possible for international and Israeli activists/volunteers to join together with the local Palestinian community to rebuild the home of a Palestinian family whose house has been demolished by the Israeli authori . . . Friday the 14th of December, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=518 <br>Yesterday, the seventh day of Hannuka and the second day of the fast before the Moslem holiday of El Adha, Israeli police accompanied bulldozers in a horrific day of demolitions in the unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev. 27 homes were demolish . . . Wednesday the 12th of December, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=433 <br>It is difficult to think of a place more suitable than Har Homa for holding the first test in the spirit of Annapolis. The comparison between Har Homa Crisis No. 2 and the development of Har Homa Crisis No. 1 can teach us whether the Israeli-Palestini . . . Monday the 10th of December, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=426 <br>One may well think that the struggle inside the Jewish community of Israel is between those of the political right, who want to maintain the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank so as to "redeem" the Greater Land of Israel as a Jewish count . . . Saturday the 1st of December, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=505 <br><p style="margin-top: 0in"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">On 28 November 2007, Meron Benvenisti presented a lecture in <st1:place w:st="on">West Jerusalem</st1:place> at the monthly Last Wednesday Forum of the Israeli Committee Aga . . . Tuesday the 4th of December, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=424 <br>Damn it, those neighbors! <br> <br>It’s a hot and humid August in Tel Aviv, and I have no wish to leave my old room in my parents’ house. During two years of studying in the States I had forgotten just how unpleasant August was here. Crossing the road . . . Tuesday the 27th of November, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=490 <br>ICAHD held an opening ceremony for the new exhibit on Saturday 3rd November documenting the traumas and struggles of the Shawamreh family who have had their home demolished four times. Since Israelis rarely travel to the Occupied Territories (except a . . . Monday the 5th of November, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=413 <br>As did his pronouncements last August in Jericho, where Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated a willingness to withdraw from an area equivalent to 100% of the occupied territories, his latest declarations to the Saban Forum, in the presence of Condolee . . . Thursday the 8th of November, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=412 <br>There are few conflicts layered with so much mythology or governed by such contradictory narratives as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. People who have not chosen to study the conflict or are not able or willing to closely observe current events demo . . . Tuesday the 6th of November, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=488 <br>On June 10th 1967, the Israeli government demolished the Moroccan Quarter in the Old City of East Jerusalem to make easier public access to the Western Wall. After the Israeli army called on the inhabitants of the quarter to vacate their homes only a . . . Wednesday the 24th of October, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=411 <br><a href="http://www.icahd.org/eng/images/uploaded_admin_content/Bedouin-Brochure_Complete.zip">Download 50-page booklet</a> (6MB pdf file). <br>Over the past few months, Jahalin Bedouin have remained under sustained pressure by the Israeli authorities . . . Sunday the 28th of October, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=487 <br>An exhibition by the photographers' collective ActiveStills, documenting the dispossession of indigenous Palestinians from their native city, Jerusalem, amid rapid expansion of Israeli settlements, Separation Wall and home demolitions. <br> <br>On dis . . . Friday the 19th of October, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=485 <br>The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated its aggression against the Gaza Strip where it killed four Palestinians, including a minor who was crashed by bulldozer. Seven Palestinians were also injured, 13 homes destroyed, and some 121 donums of cul . . . Tuesday the 25th of September, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=402 <br>These are figures for Palestinian homes. If approximately 120,000 Druze and Arabs were expelled from the Syria Golan Heights in 1967 and their villages (134 in number) were completely demolished, that makes about 20,000 additional demolished homes, as . . . Thursday the 11th of October, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/news.asp?menu=5&submenu=1&item=484 <br>Tomorrow the High Court of Justice will hear a petition against the Jewish National Fund (JNF) from Arab citizens who have been barred from acquiring land in Carmiel, because the JNF does not lease land to non-Jews. That the heart of an Israeli city h . . . Monday the 24th of September, 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=403 <br>For immediate release. <br>ICAHD, The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions has launched a new web page, designed to bring home the enormity of Israel’s house demolition policy. Delivering information on the destruction of 18,000 homes in the O . . . Thursday the 11th of October, 2007 00:00:00 GMT